Books tagged with History: Back to library Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman John Adams by David McCullough Religion: Scriptures and Spirituality by Ben Kingsley A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer 1776 by David McCullough The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by David Plotz Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping by Patrick Radden Keefe Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn Angels and Daemons by Dan Brown Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Buddha by Karen Armstrong The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer The Calculus Wars by Jason Socrates Bardi The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio To Infinity and Beyond by Eli Maor The Joy of Pi by David Blatner A History of God by Karen Armstrong The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism by Egon Balas The Waste Makers by Vance Packard The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) by Susan Orlean The Way We Talk Now by Geoffrey Nunberg Bicycling Science by David Gordon Wilson The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson The Whiskey Rebellion by William Hogeland The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham The Born – Einstein Letters by Albert Einstein, Max Born The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman Witness by Whittaker Chambers Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts Poincare’s Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math’s Greatest Puzzles by George G. Szpiro Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan by Russell Shorto The Help by Kathryn Stockett Decision Points by George W. Bush Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee Carpentaria: A Novel by Alexis Wright Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller Dispatches by Michael Herr The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Caveat Emptor: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Ruth Downie Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
